Hearing the noise, everyone inside the castle turned their heads just in time to see Alexander walking in.
"How is he here? Didn't you burn his soul?" Ravenna exclaimed, her face turning pale.
The two men in black robes standing beside her showed expressions of disbelief.
Especially the man in the black robe who had just personally placed half of the scroll on the candle to burn, now looked horrified.
He was certain that there had been no mistake in the ritual steps!
During the process, he hadn't felt anything unusual!
And the final burning of the half scroll into ashes was witnessed by everyone present.
Both the process and the outcome were correct.
So why was Alexander still alive? And why had he come before them?
The soul-burning spell was irreversible magic!
Once Alexander drank that bottle of water, there was no way he could have survived!
Unless...
